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Also, there's no need to feel obligated to read all the stories and articles in all the issues. Rocket Stack Rank picked the eleven magazines we follow based on a variety of criteria , but the most important was that we looked at which magazines everyone is talking about. These are the ones that most reviewers follow, the ones whose stories turn up in big annual "Best of" anthologies, and the ones that routinely get short-listed for major awards. In the list below, the link on each magazine's name should take you to a page where you can order a subscription.

If you see something you like, please consider doing so. RSR makes no money from this we don't use affiliate links , but we all benefit from stronger magazines, and right now they need all the help we can give them. For each magazine, we've indicated the percentage of stories that were science fiction vs. We've also counted up the words and computed how many novels-worth of original fiction they print each year, counting , words as one novel. Note that this only includes the original fiction; magazines that include reprints and other content will be a good bit bigger.

We've also included a link to a "representative story," which is an outstanding story from the magazine that's available free online and which received praise from various sources--not just RSR.

Four of the magazines are available only by subscription. These four generally have the highest writing quality. It definitely leans more to the fantasy side. It publishes almost no hard SF, and the balance often contains science indistinguishable from magic. It's well-hidden, but most of their non-fiction content is available for free online. Interzone only prints original fiction no reprints , but it also has a variety of non-fiction articles and prints book reviews.

Analog is generally thought of as the hard-SF magazine. Analog only prints original fiction no reprints , but it has a regular science column, prints poetry and book reviews, and a variety of other non-fiction articles each issue.

Online magazines are very popular these days, and they've crowded subscription magazines and anthologies out of the awards in recent years simply because it's so easy for people to share links to stories they loved.

Accordingly, the "recommended" percentages below are probably a little inflated compared to those for subscription magazines. Not a lot, though; lots of outstanding fiction appears first in online magazines these days. Nearly pure SF, with the highest percentage of hard-SF of any magazine but Analog , Clarkesworld goes for sense of wonder more than anything.

They run a good bit of "experimental" fiction, much of which is fascinating. It has made a name for itself with its pioneering translations of modern Chinese science-fiction stories. On the downside, it will overlook writing problems if the story has enough "wow" factor, and the problem with experimental fiction is that sometimes experiments don't work.

It prints original fiction with some reprints which it calls "classic fiction" , author interviews, general non-fiction articles, and the only editorials in all eleven magazines that are actually interesting to read.

Lightspeed offers an even mix of SF and Fantasy, and the diversity of story types is so great that no one has been able to pigeon-hole it.

The editor is one of the best in the business, so the writing quality is quite high. Even-handed in everything, Lightspeed prints equal amounts of reprints and original fiction so if you count the reprints, that's 5.

It also does book and movie reviews and lots of author interviews. Subscribers get the stories as much as a month early plus some bonus content that non-subscribers never see. I love Apex for the story concepts. I'm never bored by Apex stories.

They grab you! Authors seem to have a lot of trouble figuring out how to end this kind of story, though, so you generally need to value the journey more than the destination.

Apex publishes a mix of original fiction and reprints as well as author interviews and non-fiction articles about writing.

Subscribers get some content weeks earlier than non-subscribers do. If you're looking for pure fantasy, BCS is the magazine for you. They're particularly good at offering relatable characters in interesting settings. BCS only prints original fiction--no reprints and no other content either. Subscribers get the new stories about two weeks earlier than non-subscribers.

Others publish just horror or "flash" ultra-short stories under words. And a few are just too new for us to consider yet. As a group, very few of their stories attract attention from the reviewers, anthologists, or awards that we pay attention to. That doesn't mean they're bad, and we keep tabs on ones that look like they might "break out" and gain broader popularity.

If you're interested in magazines beyond the eleven we follow, here are two big lists of other magazines you might want to check out:. Short-fiction authors who want to join SFWA need to demonstrate they've had stories these publications in order to qualify for membership, so these tend to be the best magazines out there. They pay authors better, they're published more regularly, and they have longer publication histories than most magazines that aren't qualifying.

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Baen's Universe They publish six issues a year. The other four are all available from FictionWise. I understand all the objections to eBooks, and lord only knows I haven't given up physical books. Wider selection, ease of reading in the tub, etc. However, especially for the fiction digests, you may want to give it a chance. Reading them electronically, you never have to worry about finding them, or having them stack up on a shelf somewhere.

You're supporting the markets that bring us the short fiction that keeps the field vital, and reading short fiction from a screen is easier on the eyes than reading a whole novel although I have no problem reading long novels from any kind of screen now.

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